Great lives never go out; they go on.
– Benjamin Harrison
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
– Benjamin Harrison
Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice.
– Benjamin Harrison
Two presidents or three, with equal powers, would as surely bring disaster as three generals of equal rank and command in a single army. I do not doubt that this sense of single and personal responsibility to the people has strongly held our presidents to a good conscience, and to a high discharge of their duties.
– Benjamin Harrison
The emancipation proclamation was heard in the depths of the earth as well as in the sky; men were made free, and material things became our better servants.
– Benjamin Harrison
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
– Benjamin Harrison
We have not attained an ideal condition. Not all of our people are happy and prosperous; not all of them are virtuous and law-abiding. But on the whole the opportunities offered to the individual to secure the comforts of life are better than are found elsewhere and largely better than they were here one hundred years ago.
– Benjamin Harrison
We cannot afford in America to have any discontented classes, and if fair wages are paid for fair work we will have none.
– Benjamin Harrison
The manner by which women are treated is a good criterion to judge the true state of society. If we know but this one feature in a character of a nation, we may easily judge the rest, for as society advances, the true character of women is discovered.
– Benjamin Harrison
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had ahard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event.
– Benjamin Harrison
If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?
– Benjamin Harrison